Medical Billing and Coding
This course is designed to educate the health care team member with the mechanics of submission of electronic/paper insurance claim forms and current industry coding for medical office treatments and procedures. Content covered is ICD 10, HCPCS, and Medical Coding.
Prerequisite: Completion or concurrent enrollment in Medical Terminology and/or Anatomy & Physiology.
Graduates from this program are very much in demand.
Successful completers of the Medical Coding Certificate Program will be prepared to take the CPC Certification Exam.
6 Credit Hour course, textbooks are included in the course cost.
You Will Learn
To work as a member of a health care team within scope of practice
Perform within legal and ethical boundaries
Recognize patient’s rights and the legal implications of working in health care
Recognize professional credentialing criteria
Demonstrate knowledge of federal/state health care legislation and regulations
To document appropriately and to respond to issues of confidentiality
Reimbursement, HIPAA, and Compliance
An overview of ICD-10-CM
ICD-10-CM Outpatient Coding and Reporting Guidelines
Careers
Hospitals
Physician offices
Long-term care
Nursing homes
Home health care
Information
Spring 2020 Schedule
Summer 2020 Schedule
Faculty
The Kansas Department of Commerce has awarded Salina Area Technical College a $210,000 grant to help with the start-up costs of the college’s planned Associate Degree in Nursing program.
The grant was through the Department’s Jobs and Innovative Industry Skills Training (JIIST) program.
The planned Associate Degree in Nursing program will be the second nursing program Salina Tech has started in recent years. The college’s first Practical Nursing class began in August of 2018. The Practical Nursing program can be completed in nine months, while the ADN program spans two years (not including prerequisite classes).
The Associate Degree in Nursing program was approved by the Kansas Board of Regents and the Kansas State Board of Nursing this past September, and is awaiting approval from the Chicago-based Higher Learning Commission.
The first ADN class is expected to start in August of 2019.
Read more at KSAL.com
Scholarships
Five $1,000 scholarships available to students enrolled in an associate's, bachelor's, or graduate level program at an accredited school in the fields of gerontology, medicine, nursing, social work, sociology, psychology, physical or occupational therapy, speech [...]
Open to full-time, first time post-secondary students enrolled at Salina Tech for the fall of 2019. Apply now.